Abstract
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica exercised a profound influence upon Vergil, and that Apollonius' poem makes frequent use of etymological aetiologies.1 But the influence of Apollonius on Vergilian etymological wordplay is overlooked or underappreciated by most commentators. This paper will present four examples of Vergilian etymological wordplay modelled on etymological aetiologies in the Argonautica, all but the last from one section of Aeneid 3.
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